Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-03-24

In an interview President Bates, OF the
Baltimore & Ohio Telegraph company,
says: We are doing ayery heavy business,
and are making constant extensions to
our system. Since 1884 our mileage has
increased three-fold, our revenue four and
one-half times, and our traffic nearly
seven times. We are to-day handling a
larger gross traffic than handled by the
Western Union in 1869.
Isaac II, Vincent, Alabama's defaulting
treasurer who has been missing since
1885, having got away with over 5000
000 OF public money, was lodged in Jail at
FL Paso, Texas.
At a meeting OF the board Of directors OF
the Manitoba held in New York it was re-
solved to make nm issue OF 81, 900, 600,
hIty-year 4 per cent gold bonds, secured by
a first mortgage on the Montana division,
giving the privilege to the stockholders OF
the company to subscribe for the same pro
rata to provide funds toward the compile
ton and equipment of the extension from
DEVILS Lake, OAK, to Great Falls, Mont.
A London cable TO the Brooklyn Citizen
says: Mr.. Parnell, it is understood, will
n5t accebt Mr.. Chamberlain's conditions.
Mr.. Gladstone is charged by Mr.. Chamber
lain with leaning to the Parnell interpre-
tation OF home rule rather than to the
bHiOlAnt It1Qiitk. 1Dt aflhu leauer TetUScu
to agree to the exclusion OF Ulster from the
control Of the proposed Dublin parliament
or the reservation OF law and order from
it's authority.
A London cable says DIR. Parker, Hen.
ry Ward Beecher's intimate friend in this
country is to be asked to sueeeed the lead
pastor OF Plymouth church. DIR. Parker
is a man OF the Beecher type, and the Sec
n most popular preacher in London.
He is bizarre and theatrical in style and a
very advanced Liberal. He is inferior to
Mr.. Beecher in originality and freshness.
DIR. Cotton OF New York, when in Califor.
mia in ,49, used to get an ounce of gold
SIG for every tooth he pulled.
George Il. Howe, an operator on change,
in Chicago Jailed, owing to a sharp decline
IN wheat.
Henry c. Bowen permitted Beecher's
name to appear in the New York Indepen-
dent recently for the first time in fifteen
years.
A Washington special TO the World
Gays: Senator nnd Mrs. Sabin will remain
here until April /. The two little daugh-
ters OF the late Delegate Raymond oil Da-
kota-Efhel and Blanche-are to be per-
maneatly with them and they have also
as their own the orphan son and daughter
Of a cousin OF the senator. Mrs. Sabin, a
young and lovely woman, was early left
an orphan, and she says: Though
brought up by kind friends, / know what
it IS to feel unmothered. and / am anxious
that these little ones shall escape that
aching void in their lives"
Hopkins Bros, manufacturers store az
Scar Lake, Mich, was burned. Loss, $780,
600; insurance, $4,000.
j. n. Webster, aged &c. OF Des Moines,
was thrown from the platform OF a pas
seneer car near Sierra Blanca, Tex, and
killed.
Thomas Burns was shot and killed in Chi.
cago by Albert Kosisick, the purpose evil
IDENTIFY being robbery. The murderer is in
custody.
Rev. w. j.. ellis, who was associated
with Mr.. Moody in Chicago, and afterwards
pastor OF the Presbyterian church at Des
MONIES, died at Orange, n. j.
The county clerk at Chicago returned
the alleged marriage certificate OF Nina
Van Zandt and the anarchist Spies Il JUS
tice Englehardt. who claimed to have per-
formed the ceremony. The clerk reminds
the justice that as Spies was in the county
Jail at the time OF the alleged marriage he
could not have been at the village OF Jeffer-
son.. where the justice e~ertifies the marriage
occurred.
Cardinal Manning has heartily Endorsed
the policy advocated by Cardinal Glib
bons towards the Knights OF Labor.
Senator Warner Miller will visit Alaska
the coming summer with his family.
A maj bic bust OF John C. Calhoun has
been placed in the senate gallery.
Postofice established: Wisconsin.
Agendy, Ashland county. Postmasters
commissioned-Dakota: Candee, L. +. Sib-
t.k. DoInx~- NN--lI---. n.If- q
Robertson; L~afontaine, J.. T. Twinney.
Fourth-class postmasters appointed-Da-
kota; Sergeant, A. Ii. Marsh; Winchester,
CHI. Bumstcsder; Rome as. Clark; Brook
field, Ii. c. Ferguson; Fairview, H. j. Tod;
Mardelt S. H. Nelson. Iowa: Armstrong.
G.. Stewart; Hepdrick, w. w. Hagen: In.
d~ianapolis. w. c. Maltby; Oakland Mills,
Charlotte A. Honseil; West Side, C. Rich.
ardson; Zenorsville. r. MeCrackin. Mon
tana; Rudersburg A. yawier. Wisconsin:
Mishawakwa, w. III. Chaffee; Charlesburg,
n. Mahlberg.
In the New York assembly, after a pro.
longed struggle. a bill to establish a high
liquor license In that state was ordered to
a third reading by a party vote, Republic
cans for. Democrats against.
At Akron, Ohio, a boycott has been en-.
forced against Armour e. Co. Is meat by the
iVNnA <tAttohf tCiCklhDflttl
his Cleveland agent to go to Akron and
start five or six shops to sell meat at any
price and charge the loss to Armour & Co.
The governor OF Tennessee signed the bill
to submit to the people a prohibition
amendment to the constitution. The cleo
ton will be held in September.
It is reported in railroad circles that in
n short time fast trains will be put on the
Milwaukee & st. Paul and Wisconsin Cen
traI between Chicago and st. Paul. IL is
expected that the Burlington and North
ern will follow suit. The trains are to be
run in the day time instead OF at night.
Az a recent dinner in Washington, given
by Mrs. Stockton, each guest was present
ed With a little cage containing n canary
bird.
1t Is reported that emperor william, ON
receiving the French Minister MARQUIS
d'Abzac, silid: Tell your eompatriots that
there Is no danger Of war. So long as / live
! shall noe all my influence to maintain
peace. God will soon call me to himself. /
do No wiii to leave my people a heritage
OF blood. Germany shares my desire for
good relations with France.